Marje and Bill Chambers have called Los Alamos home since May 1950 and they raised four children here. The first week they arrived, Marje volunteered to be troop leader for the Hill's only Girl Scout Troop. She became president of the Los Alamos and Sangre de Cristo Girl Scout Councils. Named project historian to the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos office, she wrote A History of Los Alamos as part of her PhD dissertation. Twice elected to the County Council, she also served six years on the Personnel Board, five as chair. As president of the Los Alamos Historical Society, Marje chaired international history conferences in Los Alamos during each of her two terms. She was also instrumental in the establishment of the NM Endowment for the Humanities. A charter member of the Los Alamos branch of the American Association of University Women, she became president of the local, state, and national AAUW organizations. Marje twice received the Governor's Award for Distinguished Women and the New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award.

Additional biographical material can be found in the Los Alamos Monitor of March 31, 2003.

Written by Karen Nilsson Brandt, copyright ©